simplification of products of gamma functions & bfloat bug
Subject: simplification of products of gamma functions & bfloat bug
From: Barton Willis
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:50:24 -0600
Is there a Maxima function that simplifies (%o47) to 1? The composition
minfactorial(makefact(...)) doesn't simplify (%o47) to 1. Also, maybe it
has already been fixed, but (%o48) shows a bug:
(%o47) (gamma(1/7)*gamma(4/21)*gamma(17/21)*gamma(6/7)-gamma(4/21)*gamma
(10/21)*gamma(11/21)*gamma(17/21))/(gamma(1/7)*gamma(10/21)*gamma
(11/21)*gamma(6/7))
(%i48) [float(%), bfloat(%)];
(%o48) [1.0,2.220446049250212b-16]
Barton